Bellefonte, Pa., April 5, 1907.
A SYSTEM OF PETTY FINES.
The Way the Ever Ready Scran Bag
Helps to Keep the Ship Looking
Spick and Span—Some Rules That
Are Enforced In the Officers’ Messes.
In the British navy to say that a
thing is a custom of the service is to
say that it must be done that way and
no other. It is nowhere laid down, for
instance, that the senior officer shall
always enter a boat last and leave it
first, but the expression on a certain
captain's face might have led one to
believe that one of the laws of the
Medes and Persians had been broken
when, on taking the
chaplain ashore with him on one ocea-
sion, he said, “Now, then, padre, jump
in,” and the reverend gentleman po-
litely replied, “After you, sir.”
This custom is one of the oldest in
the service, says the Grand Magazine.
It doubtless dates from
days of Drake, if not, indeed, from
those of Noah himself, probably the
last to enter the ark after all his jun-
lors and proteges had been safely em-
barked.
The gunroom mess consists of the
sublieutenants, all other commissioned
officers of equivalent rank and all mid-
shipmen and cadets. Midshipmen are
divided into two lots, senior and junior,
The former are over eighteen years of
age and are allowed many privileges,
such as smoking and so on, denied to
the juniors,
As a specimen of the customs which
remind the juniors that they are still
in bondage the one known as “fork in
the beam” is worth notice. It may be
sprung upon its victims at any time
during or after dinner,
When the president of the mess
sticks a table fork into one of the
beams overhead, it is a signal for all
Juniors to clear out of the mess as fast
as legs, arms or anything else can car-
ry them. The last one receives several
good whacks with a dirk scabbard on
the most convenient part of his body
as he disappears through the door.
The scramble that results would dis-
turb the equilibrium of most older and
more sedate digers than those usually
found in a gunroom,
One of the most important and best
known Institutions in the service is the
scran bag. It is well known that the
allowance of paint and materials for
keeping a ship clean, as laid down by
the British admiralty, is quite inade-
quate for that purpose. My lords are
much more generous nowadays than
they used to be, but the first lieutenant
commander has still to put his hand
in his pocket if he wishes his ship to
look really sinart.
The small supply of these necessities
which the admiralty provides for clean-
ing brasswork, etc., is augmented from
the takings of the scran bag. A ship
must be spick and span and tidy as
any housewife could wish to see her
home,
Nothing must be out of place, and
nothing must be left lying about, but
sailors, like other mortals, are only hu-
man and consequently leave articles
of clothing and personal property in
places where they ought not to. This
is an offense for which they are liable
to disciplinary punishment. But a bril-
liant though unknown officer many
years ago devised a scheme by which
all the articles thus found are promptly
seized by the ship's police and placed
in the scran bag.
There they remain until the next
Thursday afternoon, which is the time
set aside for men to make and mend
clothes. The bag is then opened by
the master at arms, and the owners
may redeem their lost property by pay-
ing a fine of an inch of yellow soap
for each article.
The price of this soap is a penny an
inch, and the fine is usually paid in
cash, not in kind. Should a man have
something confiscated without which
he can not manage to get on till the
next Thursday he can redeem it at
once by paying double. Not even offi-
cers are exempt from these penalties,
Several quaint rules are enforced in
the officers’ messes, the origin of which
is lost in the oblivion of antiquity.
For instance, one rule lays down that
no officer may place his feet on the
table unless he has sailed around both
capes—Ii. e., Cape of Good Hope and the
Horn. Any one not eligible found in
this elegant attitude is fined drinks
around by all the members who hap-
pen to be in the mess.
newly joined |
before the |
AN ARGUMENT OF FORCE.
Napoleon Smashed a Vase, and the
Treaty Was Signed.
Early in April, 1797, the people of
Austria demanded peace with France.
Negotiations were begun in the vieini-
ty of Leoben. Bonaparte, in an inter-
view with the Austrian plenipotenti-
aries, said to them, “Your government
has sent against me four armies with-
out generals, and this time a general
without an army.” In the treaty
' which the Austrian commissioners pro-
jected the first article stipulated that |
the emperor of Austria thereby recog-
nized the French republic. “Erase it!”
exclaimed Napoleon, “The existence
of the republic is as plain as the sun.
This article is only fit for the blind.
| We are our own masters and shall es-
tablish any government we prefer. If
one day the French people,” he con-
tinued, “should wish to create a mon-
archy, the emperor might object that
he had recognized a republic.” The
preliminaries were soon settled, Napo-
leon signing for France, thus placing
himself on an equal footing with the
emperor of Austria. The formal treaty
known as Campo Formio was signed
in October, 1797, Austria fulfilling the
pledges she had already given. The
Austrian plenipotentiary protested
against the distribution of the prov-
inces beyond the Adige. Napoleon was
angered at this, and, seizing a vase,
dashed it to the ground, exclaiming,
“If it is not so arranged I will break
Your monarchy as I have broken this
vase!” This argument of force, as
demonstrated to the diplomat was
convineing, and the treaty was signed.
A Caustic Rejoinder,
A physician who had for fifteen
years been one of the doctors of the
Actors’ fund and who attended hun-
dreds of actors with no compensation
whatever, wrote to a prominent man-
ager and asked for some theater tick-
ets. Mis request was refused, the man.
ager asking what the doctor had ever
done that he should be entitled to re-
ceive theater tickets gratis. The phy-
siclan immediately replied. His letter
contained a brief recital of his services
to theatrical people. In conclusion he
Jaid: “Despite my services, as named
tbove, I should not have thought of
asking you for tickets had it not heen
that upon the occasion of the death of
Mr. Blank you assured me that if you
could ever serve me in any way what-
ever you would consider it a favor if
I would call upon you. However, I
bear you no ill will on account of your
present action, I was very glad to at-
tend Mr. Blank when he died in your
box office, and I should be happy to do
as much for you at any time.”
Discharging the Cook.
“Well, cook's gone at last, John,”
said Mrs, B.
“Good. You must have had more
courage than I gave you credit for to
discharge her.”
“I didn't do it. She discharged her-
self. I flattered her so about her cook-
ing that she thought she was too good
to stay with us, and off she went.”
Music Hath Charms.
“Waiter!” called the customer in the
restaurant where an orchestra was
playing.
“Yes, sir.”
“Kindly tell the leader of the orches-
tra to play something sad and low
while I dine. I want to see If it won't
have a softening influence on this
steak!" —TIt-Bits,
Shifting the Blame.
Husband--Where did I leave my
spectacles last night? Wife—Let me
see! 1 saw them somewhere, but 1
can’t remember where it was. Hus-
band—That's just like a woman--can’t
remember anything.—Exchange.
Coming Forth,
Stage Manager—Why didn't you go
on when you got your cue, “Come
forth?’ Super—Oi was waitin’ for the
other three to go on first. Sure, an’
how could OI come fourth if I wint
first?”
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